Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty–his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley
INTERESTING STATIS FROM MY TRAVELS THUS FAR..
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*Since I can be a bit of a freak and geek, the below is a list of travel statistics that I've kept very accurately from the beginning of my journey dating back to when I left Denver, Colorado on March 5, 2012*
Number of days traveled: 2,018
Different places I have slept or called home: 429 Free Hotel Stays: 3 Hosted by a Couch Surfer: 8 Hostels worked at or managed: 6 New Facebook friends added: 1,195 Overland Border Crossings: 28 Total lifetime countries visited: 48 (*50) Longest consecutive time on a bus: 19 hours Total hours spent in or on various modes of transportation: 4,329 hours Distance traveled: 322,778 km / 200,565 miles (*circumference of earth 24,874 miles / 40,030 km) *Nautical miles: 820 km / 642 miles *Bumped my head on the boat in AK: 519 Overland border crossings: 21 (13 new countries) Number of cities visited: 136 Lowest temp experienced: -27º C (-17º F) Highest temp experienced: 42.7º C (109º F) Highest elevation: 3,474m (11,398ft) Lowest elevation: -420m (1,377ft) °°Farthest North traveled: 57.7931° N, 152.3942° W (Kodiak, Alaska) Farthest South traveled: 38.4833° S, 145.2333° E (Philip Island, Australia) Different beaches visited: 87 Volcanoes climbed: 4 Waterfalls: 31 Airstrips driven across: 2 Times I have been sick (food poisoning/illness): 6/3 Different types of currency experienced: 23 Pairs of floppy floppies I've destroyed from use: 10 Pairs of flippy floppies stolen: 3 Sunglasses desTROYed: 25 Hats lost/stolen or desTROYed: 4 Schools taught at: 7 (students taught 372) Consulting Clients: 171 Sunrises experienced: 196 (sunrises at 30,000 feet - 10) Sporting events attended abroad: 6 #KoreanPhoneZombies walking into me and dropping their smartphones: 4 Selfie Stickes desTROYed: 1 PRIOR TO LEAVING THE UNITED STATES in 2012 Months spent planning: 10 Months spent saving money: 30 Vaccinations received prior to leaving the #USA: 21 MODES OF TRANSPORTATION: *Most all forms of transportation listed below have been paid forms of transportation, that's always why I've listed each time I've ridden the subway in various cities, primarily almost daily in #Seoul #Korea* Flights - 75 (Airports Visited 44 / Airports Slept in Overnight 13 / Red Eye 22) Buses - 464 (*overnight buses 16) Boats/Ferries - 66 (*overnight boat 1) Tuk Tuks - 34 Cars/Trucks/Taxis - 94 / Uber - 4 Jeeps - 6 ATVs - 1 Trains - 23 Subways - 1,715 Cable Cars - 2 Funiculars - 2 Motorbikes - 27 (*crashes 1) Gondolas - 2 Bicycles - 18 Cyclos - 1 Zip-line - 1 Camels - 2 Horses - 3 Golf Carts - 1 *These are all the other various of modes of transportation I have used to get around: commercial airline, car, school bus, passenger van, truck, boat, tuktuk, ferry, minivan, bicycle, atv, surfboard, skateboard, horse carriage, bicycle rickshaw, horseback, jeep, scooter, inner tube, ... |
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QUOTES FROM TRAVELERS I'VE MET ALONG THE WAY...
"There are two types of people that I despise, people who judge other people by their race and...the Dutch" - Char (CA) "Is that Serial Killer?! Now I'm seriously afraid" - Tim (Canada) "Guatever" - Kelly (Canada) "Wow we look good" - Jin (South Korea) "Don't look but I have bug bites around my bikini area" - Valentina (England) "You gotta have cojones, Bruce (Lee)" - Rudy (Belize) "Lauren Barker is blowing it (fb) up!" - Troy (United States) "You see that shack out there, that's where you can find us." - Eva (Czech Republic) "She was working the circuit" - Emma (Australia) "Viejo amigo...a bien" - Aldo (Guatemala) "Best friends for life. FOR LIFE Armando!" - Troy (United States) "I've got 2 users online, lookout Facebook I'm coming after you" - Armando (United States) "Nothing like sweat n regret" - Emily (Canada) "Swedish women are hotter than women from the UK, it's a proven fact" - Petter (Sweden) "Chileans worst fear, spending money" - Krista (Canada) "I want to LIVE!" - Carlos (Cuba) "Nunca nunca" - Danela (Chile) "I have a rockin sweat gotee going on, and it's hot" - Jaimie (Canada) "I wanna see a scrap mate, sooo badly" Yomi (England) "It tastes like cancer" - Glen (Australia) "Never back in to anything" - Ford (United States) "The squishy board got me again" - Michelle aka Maf (Canada) "You just got gringo'd man" - Lindsay (Canada) "You know where (Pee-know Chee-oohs) is? Emm (Australia) *Response "You mean, Pinocchios?" Troy (United States) "Troy has a fancy man-friend in Vegas" Krista (Canada) "I wonder if you get hair from her sweet unibrow with your meal too" Cameron (United States) "Poe-see-blay" Lindsay (Canada) "Get It In Ya" (All of Canada) "American football is just an organized pillow fight" Marc (England) "Next time you're at the mall take the escal-HATER. Sometimes my level of genius amazes me." Stephen (United States) "We know you're home Skips, pick up the phone Skips. We know you're home Skips, pick up the phone Skips (Regular Show). Alix (United States) "Don't be trying to sip on my Kool-Aid yo" Omeed (United States) "Bros before shoes" Kellie (Australia) "Get India" Kelvin (Australia) "Seven pounds of meat? That's like eating a baby!" Sophie (New Zealand) "What are you doing (Marc)? You're like Edward Teepee hands" Dan (United States) "Ugh all of the first world problems have not knowing where to fly to in the world" James (Australia) "You shut your beautiful mouth and get back in the kitchen woman" Adam (Australia) "Rugby and soccer is for tossers...the NFL mate" McKenzie (South Africa) "(The healthy lifestyle of backing) Ugh, I´m so full of eating candy!" Char (Canada) "I'm declearing it the Happy Hour of hate" Nico (Peru) "Hey, sometimes you just have to have two brownies in two days" Emily (United States) "She had a prostitute face" Coco (Panama) "Today we should make dinosaur noises all day, RAWR" Monica (Australia) "Swiss people...haha" Florentine (Denmark) "We had like a wooden dishwasher" Sally (South Africa) "What time is it? I think it's ten o' ten" Rachel (United States) "My troops are not listening to me" Mel (England) "I'm quite certain my body is dying" Ivan (South Africa) "White people love Starbucks" Shane (United States) "It's not awkward for me, it's awkward for them" Shelle (Canada) "Show us your sausage face" Asia (Poland) "Hi, I'm Officer Friendly" Adrian (Switzerland) "Just because I'm wearing an orange shirt doesn't mean I'm Dutch" Miriam (Germany) "I need more cheesy nibblets for my shopping trolley" Sam (England) "They know they don't want you to party when they put on Enya" Christian (Sweden) "You're the only person in the world that I've met up with on 3 different continents" Breean (United States) "You're from Frankfurt? I hate Frankfurt! Asia (Poland) "Suns out, guns out" Austin (United States) "My best friend, I give you the best price" All Vendors (The Entire World) "Koreans are deathly afraid of animals" Ray (United States) "You see this here (holds up and drinks out of a plastic flask of Soju) this here my water bottle in church (hee-haw haw haw)" - Crystal aka Miss Swan (South Korea) "Ugh, I hate missing dance battles" - Angi (United States) My daughter likes American culture, she really likes Wimpy Kid and Captain Underpants..(entire group starts laughing, 'You mean Square Bob Spongepants')…Awe yes - Tour Guide at Pyeong Taek (South Korea) "I won't pick up your dirty undies" - Steph (United States) "I have tiger stench all over me" - Troy (United States) "They (catfish) are the garbage trucks of the sea" - Ashley (United States) "They shouldn't let the colored ones (lanterns) in, they're ugly. Oh wow that just sounded really bad haha" - Ashley (United States) "Who doesn't love a girl in a Star Wars shirt?" - Sarah (England) "I don't need a pharmacy, I'm 97% perfect" - Laura (England) "I think with every new photo I post, I'm actually losing friends on Facebook" - Julian (Spain) "My reward (Greek pizza) for a tough day sitting at the beach - Natery (Canada) "Same same, but different" - (All of Southeast Asia) "Don't hate me because I was born funny" - Catalina (Colombia) "[Where you come from? Today, Gili Islands] Oh Gili Islands…too many Muslims. Here (Bali) too many Hindus, ugh" - Taxi Driver (Kuta Balia) "Low crime, doesn't mean no crime" Rommel (United States / Singapore) "Ahh Punzzzzzz" - Both punzs' aka Marcus and Bree (United States) "You wanna get in to insults with me?" - Steve (Australia) "We can't tell, all you girls look the same" - (Korean adoptee guys' joke to the female adoptees) "I think I love Denmark more than you (Peter from Denmark)" - Sin (Belgium) "IT'S HAPPENING!" - Jacob (United States) "Was that the girl I was stalking on Facebook?" - Devin (United States) "Vancouver can suck it" - Char (Canada) |
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